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disarrange

[dis-uh-reynj] / ˌdɪs əˈreɪndʒ /


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Then guards would deliberately disarrange the pile and announce that everyone must be dressed in five minutes.

From Time Magazine Archive

“So your pelo loco, like clippings of grass, will not disarrange this house,” she says.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

Eyes still watering and head still throbbing, he drew his wand, careful not to disarrange the Cloak, and waited, breath held.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

"You will disarrange the manuscript, and you take no interest in these abstruse scientific studies."

From No Surrender by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

One never knew when they would miss step, inconveniently, and so disarrange the entire social rhythm of a conversation.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson

That unleashed force is plied most artfully here to create a portrait of how grief unhinges, disarranges and heightens everyday life.

From New York Times Apr. 17, 2019

A similar expression now and again disarranges the handsome, sardonic features of the title character of “Butley” in Lindsay Posner’s engaging revival at the Duchess Theater.

From New York Times Jul. 20, 2011

When a stiff wind disarranges his lacquered locks, he looks panic-stricken, like a man who’s just seen his own ghost.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

And the contretemps of the last minute—a sudden death that disarranges the bridal party; a wretched cold that prevents a favorite cantatrice from singing, and so forth, and so forth.

From The Simple Life by Hendee, Mary Louise

They run down to a relay, Ben, catching the electric waves striking the decoherer, which taps the coherer and disarranges a lot of brass filings by mechanical vibration.

From The Boys of the Wireless by Webster, Frank V.

It doesn't take long to decide whether Netflix’s “3 Body Problem” is extraordinary or a disarranged travesty.

From Salon Mar. 21, 2024

Those of us with brains long since disarranged from a lifelong soak in college football must adapt now.

From Washington Post Nov. 6, 2022

For his solo work “Compression,” the choreographer Niall Jones has arranged, or disarranged, a small theater at Performance Space New York into this in-between state.

From New York Times Oct. 26, 2022

The 52-year-old Johnson has managed to use his disarranged, slightly comical hair as a helmet, shielding him from more serious scrutiny.

From Seattle Times Jun. 21, 2016

Ellis Spear had come sleepily up, disarranged, eyes wide.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

The monkey, disarranging her palm-oiled coiffure, is soon to go to the States.

From Time Magazine Archive

She hops onto the bed beside me, disarranging my small pile of threadbare stuffed animals—a koala, a snake, a black cat—all beloved of my seven-year-old self.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Still Völgyeshy persisted; but the recorder interfered, saying, that the mildness which the sheriff had recommended could not, by any means, be carried to the bursting open and disarranging the larder of the sheriff's wife.

From The Village Notary by E?tv?s, J?zsef

But that dame managed to extricate the big dish before any greater damage was done than disarranging the effect of a wreath of autumn leaves.

From Molly Brown of Kentucky by Speed, Nell

She wore nothing over her head, for fear of disarranging the light Princess-of-Wales' fringe curling on her forehead.

From Consequences by Delafield, E. M.




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